Events

Visitors help the ranger team collect this year's apple crop from Barrington Court's orchards; the harvest came early, so the dates moved from late October.

Free family Apple Day in the park barn and gardens, with apple juicing, a cafe and apple games.

Heritage railway festival with around 70 ciders and 200 real ales across three stations, live music, food stalls and train rides between sites.

Weekend festival of live music and local cider at the Gower Heritage Centre, home of Shed Head Cider.

Visitors pick their own apples from the abbey's heritage orchard and learn how its juice and cider are pressed; sessions on Saturdays 17, 24 and 31 October.

Estate-wide harvest weekend with apple games, cider tastings, orchard tractor tours, live music and food stalls.

Harvest weekend with apple displays and tastings, family activities, a vintage tractor display and ploughing demonstration, alongside a village hall craft fair.

Annual celebration of the apple harvest in the estate orchard, with orchard traditions, local food and drink, and live music.

Celebration of 50 years of the Woughton community orchard, with orchard tours, entertainment, live music and food.

Free autumn fayre marking Apple Day, with apple pressing, nature walks and crafts, a sustainable marketplace and food stalls.

New Forest garden's celebration of the apple harvest, including its National Plant Collection of Hampshire & Isle of Wight apples.

Celebration of the apple harvest in the park's orchard, run by the Friends of Holywells Park.

Family Apple Day at the orchard group's apple packing shed: bring your own fruit to be pressed into juice, apple identification and a display of local varieties (details as run in 2025).

Family day with apple tastings, apple pressing, orchard tours, rural craft demonstrations and a makers market in the hall grounds.

Community centre Apple Day with scores of apple varieties to taste, children's crafts and storytelling, a cafe, and cider for sale.

Ranger-led Apple Day in the park orchard, with apple tasting, apple pressing and orchard-themed activities for families.

Garden opening to celebrate the apple at Bernard Shaw's former home, with tastings of over 20 heritage varieties, orchard tours every 30 minutes and children's games.

Apple Day at the Botanic Garden with over 25 heritage varieties to taste and buy, apple identification by orchard experts, garden tours and children's crafts.

Apple day at the historic watermill with independent traders, activities and refreshments.

Autumn gathering in the orchard pressing apples, part of a project recreating an old cider press.

Annual farm Apple Day with apple pressing, cider for sale, tractor and trailer rides, food and craft stalls and children's activities.

Free annual celebration of Gloucestershire's orchards and cider, with a horse-drawn cider press, Morris dancing and apples to taste.

Free community Apple Day with apple identification, apple crisping, a longest-peel competition and garden games.

Large free community festival in the nature reserve with apple juicing, apple tasting, music, stalls and children's activities.

Community orchard Apple Day with apple pressing, children's games and teas.

Guided tour of the Shaw's Corner orchard and garden with a focus on apples, held on Apple Day itself.

Two days of apple-themed activities, demonstrations and displays in the walled kitchen garden, home to a National Collection of apple varieties.

CAMRA beer and cider festival with a range of real ales and ciders.

Food and drink fair at Southwell Minster with dozens of stalls, celebrating the original Bramley apple tree; the National Trust Workhouse nearby runs a linked Bramley Apple Day.

Half-term week of apple pressing and juice-making in the farm barn, plus apple cake-baking workshops using locally grown fruit.

Town council apple day and farmers' market with local farmers, food producers and independent makers.

Wildlife Trust apple celebration at the reserve with a day of workshops and activities, including nature-friendly crafts and apple-themed crochet.

National Trust event alongside Southwell's Bramley Apple Festival, with the longest Apple Peel Challenge and the pauper choir.

Hands-on cider-making day using the orchard's own apples, with lunch and an orchard tour.

Half-term week with Apple Olympics on the lawn, apple tasting, children's trails, and apple picking and pressing demonstrations on selected days.

Autumn harvest celebration with Dorset apple varieties, seasonal treats and family activities across the estate.

Village food festival in Armagh's orchard country with Bramley apple celebrations, local cider, produce stalls and crafts.

Guided stroll and talk through Nostell's orchard led by the estate's senior gardener.

Visitors bring apples from home for National Trust experts to identify the variety.

Village Apple Day at the Tollesbury community orchard, announced for 2026 at a new location; bring surplus apples to press.

Apple pressing in the gardens, with visitors invited to join in.

The UK's national top-fruit competition and show, displaying over 300 apple and pear varieties from British orchards alongside trade stands.

Winter arts festival with a wassail ceremony, artisan makers and community stalls.

Pub wassail with folk musicians playing traditional tunes.

Kent hoodening (hooden horse) performance followed by a wassail with Bower Street Morris and mulled wine.

Twelfth Night pub wassail with a Court of Misrule and folk music session.

Victorian-themed museum-garden wassail with word sheets for visitors to join in.

Farm wassail with three Morris sides and an Abbots Bromley Horn Dance.

Town wassail with a community choir, hot spiced juice and storytelling.

Mummers play in the Great Barn followed by a torchlit procession to wassail the orchard.

Torchlit procession followed by a Mummers play and wassail cake.

Traditional music, songs and a drumming workshop in the old burial-ground park.

Two-orchard processional wassail starting at Brimstage, with apple cake and ribbon-tying.

Triple orchard wassail with a Mummers play and a folk session in the pub afterwards.

Barn gathering and orchard procession with the farm's own choir singing wassail classics.

Evening wassail at the cider farm with music and cider tasting to bless the orchard.

Community orchard wassail with singing and cider to wake the trees.

Live music and firepits at the cider house with traditional toasting for a bountiful harvest.

Community wassail blessing local orchard trees for the year ahead.

Pub-hosted community wassail near Plymouth.

Torchlit procession from the cider mill into the ancient orchards for the Apostle Fires ceremony, raising money for the local hospice.

Torchlit procession from St Mary's Church into the cider orchard with a bonfire and live music.

Torch-lit procession from the Wagon and Horses pub to the Vaughan Millennium Orchard, running annually since 2000.

Park orchard wassail in the walled garden.

Family wassail with apple-themed activities at the community centre.

Storytelling, hot spiced apple juice and Morris dancing to wassail the community orchard.

Village wassail organised by the local Scout group.

Cider-orchard wassail run by Blackthorn Border Morris, established 2019.

Torchlit procession from the park to the community orchard with Ashford Folk musicians and East Kent Morris.

Long-running Thanet wassail (over 30 years) with mumming and singing, linked to Kent's earliest recorded 1585 wassail.

Village procession to the heritage orchard in Hurst Meadows, with a free songs workshop beforehand.

Community garden wassail with Morris dancing and seasonal refreshments.

Firelit orchard ceremony with Morris dancing; bring your own cider or juice.

Town wassail with a walking tour, singing, dancing and cider.

Wassailing the orchard trees followed by a procession to Clay Farm Community Gardens with folk musicians.

Bonfires, Morris dancing and a Best Decorated Hat competition to bless the orchard.

Lantern-making, orchard toasting and a procession with the Tottenham Community Choir.

National Trust pub wassail with six Morris sides processing to the orchard.

Wassail at the community orchard project (running since 1995) with tree-toasting for a good harvest.

Short Morris procession followed by fire and singing in the community orchard and forest garden.

Procession wassailing several apple trees around the town, ending with music at The Three Tuns.

Daylight community wassail walk between three parks, teaching wassail songs along the way.

Community orchard wassail with hot cider and Hoylake Border Morris.

Community wassail with willow weaving, a pots-and-pans procession and a Wassail Queen blessing the trees.

Weekend festival combining wassailing with the Welsh Mari Lwyd custom, cider, food and Morris dancing.

Showground wassail evening blessing the orchard for the coming season.

Torchlit village procession to an orchard for a ceremony to ward off bad luck and encourage a good crop, ending with singing round a bonfire.

Torchlit procession through the ancient farm with the Prize Old Mummers and Hook Eagle Morris, toasting the orchard with spiced cider.

Long-standing torchlit Molly-dancing procession to the village's apple tree, followed by a pub session.

Fire in the courtyard, then a ceremony in the 14th-century Abbey Barn and around the oldest apple tree, crowning a Wassail King and Queen.

Village orchard wassail on Old Twelfth Night with toasting of the trees.

One of England's oldest and best-known wassails: cider-soaked toast hung in the branches, shotguns fired into the tree and wassail carols sung round a bonfire.

Candlelit procession led by a Lord of Misrule to toast a guardian tree with cider and drive off bad spirits.

Orchard wassail at the cider farm to bless the trees for the coming season.

Charity cider-farm wassail with Scrumpy and Western music from The Skimmy Hitchers.

Cider-farm wassail run with the local primary school to bless the orchard.

Pub wassail supported by Thatchers Cider, toasting orchard trees near Sandford.

Allotment-orchard wassail led by 'the Apple Tree Lady' with Pigsty Morris dancing.

One of the best-known English orchard wassails, held every Old Twelfth Night in the village.

Orchard wassail at the community orchard near Tiverton.

Cider-farm wassail led by the King and Queen of the Wassail, pinning toast in the branches for good spirits.

Cider-farm wassail with a Mummers play, Morris dancing and wood fires.

Family wassail under Brogdale's ancient Bramley apple tree with a torchlit ceremony.

Torch-lit orchard procession with folk musicians, dancers and a return coach service.

Family cidery wassail with tasting, apple olympics and a torchlit finish.

Crafts, live folk music and toast-pinning to wake the apple trees, run by London Wildlife Trust.

Community-hub wassail with an Apple Queen, fiddle music and pot-and-pan banging to see off evil spirits.

Free community wassail with the Town Crier, Morris dancing, mulled cider and apple cake.

Family wassail at the city farm with a theatre company leading songs and orchard blessing.

National Trust wassail in the orchard with Kittiwake Border Morris.

Museum orchard wassail with cider and traditional songs.

Revived Gloucestershire wassail with Morris dancing, music, stalls and an apple-tree blessing round a log fire, now in its third year.

All-day museum wassail with processions from Bayleaf Farmstead and short performances.

Pub-garden wassail with Datchet Morris dancing.

Community celebration singing songs and awakening the orchard trees for spring, run by mental-health and wellbeing charity Trust Links.

Village procession with Rutland Morris, a community choir and handbell ringers.

Town wassail run by Powderkegs Morris, established 2014.

Described as the oldest 'Codlin-Walloping' tradition in the British Isles: tin-clattering, ribbon-tying and singing to the trees.

Free drop-in wassail at the historic hall to toast the good health of the fruit trees.

National Trust orchard gathering for warm juice, songs, an Imbolc story and the blessing of the trees.

Cider-farm wassail with ivy-crown weaving and a 'Wolf Moon' winter celebration.

Cider-orchard wassail, partly outdoors and partly in an unheated barn.

Community garden wassail with warmed apple juice, cakes and traditional songs.

Folklore-society wassail evening with singing, mulled cider and storytelling.

Evening wassail at the cider farm with West Somerset Morris Men, chanting and toasting the trees for a good harvest.

Village green wassail to bless local fruit trees.

Village wassail with Morris dancing, a torchlit procession and shotgun blasts to wake the orchard.

National Trust orchard wassail with Black Swan Border Morris; regularly sells out.

Town procession featuring the Welsh Mari Lwyd horse-skull custom alongside orchard wassailing.

Tudor-themed wassail with Morris and Tudor dancers, drummers and a torchlit procession.

Mummers play in the Great Barn followed by a candlelit procession to the orchard, held annually since at least 2024.

Fire-side gathering to bless the orchard trees, with traditional wassail songs taught on the day and a bar of local cider.

Vineyard and orchard wassail with a flaming torch procession, now in its fourth year, with cider and brandy tasting.

Singing led by a local musician, plus craft-making and mulled apple juice among the orchard trees.

Fifteen-year-old local tradition with jacket potatoes; noise-making without gunfire.

Orchard wassail at the cider farm with toast in the trees and cider to bless the harvest.

Community orchard wassail run with Dowding's Cider, now in its fourth year, toasting the trees for a good crop.

Storytelling, crafts and singing with a Best Decorated Hat competition and warm spiced apple cider.

Countryside-craft session paired with a wassail ceremony at the country park.

Molly-dancing orchard blessing with a toast to the robins from the Grange pub.